A day of video meetings can leave an executive with plenty of conversation and little opportunity to move, prepare or finish the decisions those conversations produced.
The first useful change is to examine the meeting arrangements before attributing the fatigue to an individual weakness.
Reduce demands that serve no purpose
Hide self-view if watching yourself is distracting. Adjust the window size and camera position to make the conversation comfortable. Where the work allows it, leave room to stand or move rather than remaining fixed in front of the screen.
Jeremy Bailenson's 2021 analysis proposed several explanations for videoconference fatigue. It is useful as a set of design questions, rather than proof that every video call produces a specific threat response.
Ask whether the meeting needs video at all. A detailed visual review may benefit from shared screens. A routine check-in may work by phone, and a status update may need no meeting.
Leave a gap after discussions that require a decision or written follow-up. Otherwise, the work created by one call is pushed into the next.
Try a change with one recurring meeting and review the result. Did participants arrive better prepared? Were decisions clearer? Did fewer questions need another call? Those observations give the team a basis for keeping the change.